Can nay one help to add multiple DB field values in one field.
Say i have 3 DB fields:
Name
Address
Age
I want to display all 3 fields in the same field:
John Peter 28.
I tried doing 3 fields next to each other and it did work but when i wrap text. It looks really bad:
Name
Jo.pe.28
hn te
r
My requirement is show data in one text field, for example: John.Peter.26
If you want to put them in one line (which i guess is the case), its straight forward.
Put this as a text box $F{Name} + "." + $F{Address} + "." + $F{Age}.toString()
Or you can use string concatenation (I dont personally like the syntax, take more effort to understand) $F{Name}.concat(".").concat($F{Address}).concat(".").concat($F{Age})
The SQL Method
Why not concatenate all the 3 fields you need in the query you use itself like (Assuming you are with Postgres.),
select (name || address|| to_char(age)) as data from my_table
In Ireport
As suggested,
$F{Name} + "." + $F{Address} + "." + $F{Age}.toString()
too works if needed to make it work from the report.
Make sure that all your fields are of same data type.
Related
I am trying to make an Excel-like 'pivot table' in Filemaker using a Virtual List as the source of the data. The issue is I want to be able to have 'categories' down the first column that aren't fixed. The field names won't work.
My current thought is to have a table with a field of the layout name and the categories, that I would combine with the rest of the data via a ExecuteSQL (or other function).
I can get it to work with two ExecuteSQL statements, one for the categories and one for the 'bulk' of the data, using text for the WHERE in the categories eSQL, then I combine them into one and I'm set.
My issue is that I'd like to be able to get the categories using a get(LayoutName) function, making the script more flexible. Whenever I use the get(LayoutName) in the WHERE line of the SQL I get a ? for the result. I have also tried putting the layout name in a field using a get(LayoutName), then using that field as in the WHERE statement, but that also returns an error.
I admit I am a bit of a newbie at this, so the problem is likely between the keyboard and the chair with a simple syntax error. I have tried a bunch of different ways with quotes, no quotes, single quotes, etc.
Here is what I am using for pulling the categories...
Substitute ( ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT Category_List
FROM Categories_VL
WHERE Layout_Name = Get(LayoutName)" ; "" ; "") ; ", " ; $$delim )
All of the field names are correct, and if I change the LayoutName to a text that matches the Layout_Name field I want, it works fine.
I apologize if I have been too wordy, but I figure more info is better than answering a bunch of questions because I forgot something!
TIA!
I am struggling to understand your question. I hope I am addressing the correct issue.
You cannot use Filemaker functions inside an SQL query. To find records where the Layout_Name field is equal to the current layout's name, your query should be:
SELECT Category_List
FROM Categories_VL
WHERE Layout_Name = ?
and then you would supply the current layout's name as an argument:
ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT Category_List FROM Categories_VL WHERE Layout_Name = ?" ; "" ; "" ; Get ( LayoutName ) )
Note that instead of substituting the default delimiter, you can specify your own field and row separators within the ExecuteSQL() function itself, for example:
ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT Category_List FROM Categories_VL WHERE Layout_Name = ?" ; $$delim ; "" ; Get ( LayoutName ) )
See: https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/#page/FMP_Help%2Fexecutesql.html%23
My string columns look like this:
Name : AllenEdward
UniqID : 12345678
How can I get this output in my report?
Allen12345678 Edward
12345678 should be followed by 2 spaces.
The first thing to figure out the formulas that split the Name column. We don't know what your data looks like, so that's all you. You could write something that adds a space before any capital letters after the first, but you'll have trouble with the more complex last names like MacDonald.
Once you figure that out, it's a simple matter of using Formula Fields in Crystal. Something like:
[FIRST]{table.UniqID} & " " & [LAST]
...where [FIRST] and [LAST] are the results from your splitting formula.
Can nay one help to add multiple DB field values in one field.
Say i have 3 DB fields:
Name
Address
Age
I want to display all 3 fields in the same field:
John Peter 28.
I tried doing 3 fields next to each other and it did work but when i wrap text. It looks really bad:
Name
Jo.pe.28
hn te
r
My requirement is show data in one text field, for example: John.Peter.26
If you want to put them in one line (which i guess is the case), its straight forward.
Put this as a text box $F{Name} + "." + $F{Address} + "." + $F{Age}.toString()
Or you can use string concatenation (I dont personally like the syntax, take more effort to understand) $F{Name}.concat(".").concat($F{Address}).concat(".").concat($F{Age})
The SQL Method
Why not concatenate all the 3 fields you need in the query you use itself like (Assuming you are with Postgres.),
select (name || address|| to_char(age)) as data from my_table
In Ireport
As suggested,
$F{Name} + "." + $F{Address} + "." + $F{Age}.toString()
too works if needed to make it work from the report.
Make sure that all your fields are of same data type.
I need to write a FM script which print one field of the records being browsed on the screen and separated by commas.However, I do not know how to select the records being currently browsed and am not able to find it in the documentation (the lack of the good keyword could be the problem).
Thank you!
It sounds like you're trying to create a list of all values for one field in the Found Set. FileMaker 13 introduced the List of Summary type, which makes this pretty easy:
First, create a Summary field, say FoundAddresses. Make it a List of your e-mail address field. This field will contain a return-delimited list of the e-mail addresses in the Found Set.
Second, create a Calculation field, say FoundAddressesCommaDelimited. Make it the following text Calculation:
Substitute (
GetSummary ( FoundAddresses ; FoundAddresses ) ;
ΒΆ ; ", "
)
This will substitute all of the returns in FoundAddresses for comma-space.
How can I have a drop-down (value) list sorted by a second field (sortId) without showing that field? (I also want to include a "separator line".)
My current solution uses a second field of whitespaces to sort, but this leads to unfortunate behaviour.
Problem:
As the list needs to be dynamic (i.e. read from a table) I cannot use a Custom Value List.
The list should look like this:
zzz (sortId = 1)
aaa (sortId = 2)
bbb (sortId = 3)
------------------- (Does maybe also have to be defined with a sortId..)
uuu (sortId = 4)
lll (sortId = 5)
rrr (sortId = 6)
But the sortId should not be displayed in the drop-down list.
What I tried:
Since drop-down lists get sorted alphabetically I found out that there is this trick with using a second field which
contains "whitespaces" as sorting order. With a script/command:
Substitute(10^sortId - 1, "9", " ")
I am able to convert sortId into the correct amount of whitespaces. The sorting then works...
However, whitespaces are still shown in the Drop-down list and because we have maybe around 100 items in the value list it expands the drop-down to the right.
Another problem is that we need to use the "-" as separator line, but with this approach the "-" does not get replaced by the separator line, because the blank whitespaces are still filled behind it so its "- " and this
does not get replaced by the separator line.
I believe this technique is similar to what you've already tried, only it uses a 0-width Byte Order Mark, Char 65279:
http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/2012/09/extending-filemaker-pro%E2%80%99s-value-list-sort-capabilities-using-char-function
It won't give you functionality for the separator line, but you should be able to get a sortable list this way.